Nikki Haley crosses the Rubicon — Her defense of the jury in the E. Jean Carroll case goes to the core of Trump’s candidacy.

by wenchette

23 comments

  1. >First, she’s saying more unambiguously that Trump is a loser, which is a relatively recent development. She launched her campaign around an aspiration to win the “popular vote” — a non-issue that sidestepped the topic of his state-based efforts to overturn the last election.
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    >“With Donald Trump, Republicans have lost almost every competitive election,” she said in a Tuesday night speech in New Hampshire that enraged Trump. “We lost the Senate, we lost the House, we lost the White House. We lost in 2018. We lost in 2020, and we lost in 2022.”
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    >Her attacks on his age, honesty, “unhinged” rants, and mental fitness all relate to this as well, because they offer an actual theory of why he loses: He’s a raging incompetent who upsets swing voters that Republicans need to win. The more she can bait him into making especially racist or nasty attacks, the easier it is to illustrate her point.
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    >They also feed into the second, more potentially explosive, half of her argument that she brought up on Sunday: That Trump is primarily in legal trouble because of his own behavior — and it’s not the party’s job to bail him out as a result.

  2. Ah yes the classic way to become persona non grata in the GOP is to *checks notes*…

    Act like a normal human being and not a mindless, fascist, cultist

  3. It doesn’t matter how many juries or verdicts she agrees with over the next few months. If she’s going to pardon him, she’s excusing his behavior and ignoring every victim.

  4. >Bigger cojones than any ass-sucking Trump supporter

    My suggestions for Haley’s campaign slogan. Probably wouldn’t get her any votes, but it be fun to watch the heads explode on Fox News.

  5. The statute of limitations ran on criminal charges and for a civil lawsuit Carroll could file on the rape. All Trump had to do was keep his mouth shut and none of this would’ve happened.

  6. She should actually stand up and reverse her stupid decision to pardon Trump. Pull the fucking gloves off.

  7. She’s late. Should have came out swinging. Those racist clowns never had love for her.

  8. GOP – Geriatric Ostrich Party: Because burying your head in the sand is a political strategy, right?

  9. She spent a year complaining about Trump being prosecuted. Clown.

  10. She would still vote for him and pardon him if she wins.

  11. She is actually opposing him… not just pretending. It’s impressive.

  12. The enemy of my enemy. I disagree with her politics, but if she is trumps new mortal enemy, good. She siphons off enough moderates and trump can’t mathematically win. He can’t even come close.

  13. Sadly Haley found her cojones about three months too late to make a difference. For inexplicable reasons she really thought she was competing for the VP slot and only in last two weeks realized she wasn’t. That it took her that long to reach such an obvious conclusion is inexplicable and disqualifying.

  14. She’s making a last stand and trying to do it with some strength. Good for her. Somebody from within the castle has to say that the fat, pasty emperor has no clothes.

  15. Bad use of that particular metaphor in the title by this Benjy Sarlin person.

  17. Trump relies on the idea he is invincible. Hopefully Haley continues to put more chinks in the armor. These civil cases certainly did.

  18. Shame none of them could do that before the primaries

  19. Disagree with her that if not for the court cases, he’d be talking about what really matters. He literally can’t talk about what really matters because the only thing that matters to him is… him.

  20. If there’s one thing republicans hate more than democrats, it’s women! And an Indian one at that. She had no chance sadly.

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